Me, in a nutshell

Hey world, that's me. My name is Amber and I write full time.

I've always felt like writing chose me. I feel at home when I'm putting a story together. The adventure I have can't be put into words. Crazy, right? A writer who can't put something into words? It's true. Sometimes, I really don't know where things come from. It's like I have all these people living in my head whispering to me to say this or write that. I know I'm not crazy. I know it's my imagination. And that's fine, I'm happy with it. The way I see it is that I'll never get bored which I don't lol.

So what's my point with this blog? I wanted to share who I am in a nutshell. Show you why I'm the perfect author for the books I write. 

First of all, I know I'm weird. It does not run in my family but neither does being left-handed so that's all good. You may not know this but I was bullied growing up. I was alone. And I did attempt suicide when I was 10 years old. But I survived it and that teasing put me on the path to become a writer. It opened my mind in a way I couldn't possibly want it any other way. Coming from it, I don't judge and I understand things others may just dismiss. 

Besides being weird, I can be a little naive, overly-excited about little things, open-minded about many things, sympathetic, passionate, a little too forgiving at times, and so much more. I do suffer from depression but there are times when I feel just fine. On those days I can surprise people (in a good way lol). I was at the mall a few years ago with my daughter and her best friend. A song I liked came on while we were looking at clothes. I began singing with the artist and moved my booty a little. Her friend started laughing and said she liked me. I didn't notice I was doing that until that moment. But I was like, thank you! And then we all started moving around together. We weren't all over the story, moving but you could tell we liked the song lol. They liked the song too so I guess I surprised them that I liked the same music as them. I have those moments. When I was a kid, I wouldn't have thought I'd do anything like that--ever. And then I have days when I don't have the guts to do anything crazy like that. Somedays, I'm in the middle lol.

Okay, so how does that make me the perfect writer? I can put myself in someone else's shoes. I can pretend I am someone else because I've done it growing up. I tried so hard to get people to like me. I learned when I am me, people do like me. But I didn't know that back then. I also didn't know I'd be a writer. My life was practice to become a good one. And I had imaginary friends. Hey, I really knew they weren't there but having no friends, I needed something. Pretending was all I ever had and I never stopped pretending. But now I pretend professionally. I pretend to be a witch (Emily Peterson for Peterson Estate), I pretend to be in a coma (Katy Lynne in The Dead Life), I pretend to be a dragon (Dawnrae in Mother of the Dragons), and more. I have many, many sides. I'm flexible lol.

So if you don't have anything else to do, check out my books on Amazon and see what else I pretend to do. You will be amazed by how my imagination works. I know I am lol.